The proposed method categorised as follows: 0 residual tumour; 0.1 6-cm residual tumour; >6-cm residual tumour, and necrosis rate >50.1 6-cmified presidual (P=0.0027; P=0.02), while tumourher methods did not.
The first method, also categorised as the global method, is the nominal stress method, while the more advanced methods are the hot spot and the effective notch stress methods.
For exposure assessment, the measurement methods were categorised as direct, indirect and a combination of direct and indirect.
In a review of methods for categorising a predictor, the methods concerned were divided into two groups [ 6]: a) exploratory plots; and, b) a minimum p-value approach.
She systematically assigned Norris's responses the various codes of the standard method and categorised his answers as typical or unusual using the long lists in the manual.
A simple scoring method which categorised information into either supportive of VBAC (14 facts available) or ERCS (10 facts available) was employed and mean scores compared.
The ridit scores take account of variation between studies in the methods of categorising SEP variables and in the proportions of people in different categories of a socioeconomic variable [59].
Further work could be conducted using different methods for categorising foods.
Robust methods for categorising single nucleotide variants as allelic or homeolog-specific in large transcript datasets are required.
